COMATAS. On goat's-rue feed, my goats, and cytisus; On lentisk tread, and lie on arbutus ! LACON. Of the rose-eglantine there blooms a heap, COMATAS. Alcippe for my ring-dove gave no kiss, LACON. I love my love because a sweet lip paid COMATAS. Nor whoop the swan, nor jay the nightingale MORSON. Cease, shepherd! Morson gives the lamb to thee, Comatas; fail not to remember me, And let my portion of the flesh be nice, When to the Nymphs you make your sacrifice. COMATAS. By Pan! I'll send it. Snort and gambol round, Of Lacon, who to me his lamb has lost! I too will skip. My horned goats, good cheer! Of Sybaris I'll bathe you. Hark! I say, The Nymphs my offering. Ha! then blows I'll try- IDYL VI. THE HERDSMEN. ARGUMENT. Damotas and Daphnis beguile the time by singing alternately. Daphnis, acting the part of a spectator, describes Polyphemus sitting on a rock that overlooks the sea, and Galatea, the seanymph beloved by the Cyclops, sporting on the waves near the shore. Damætas represents Polyphemus, professing that he has acted with apparent harshness and indifference in order to attract the nymph, and compel her to live ashore with him. When they have done singing, they exchange presents. IDYL VI. THE HERDSMEN. DAMETAS AND DAPHNIS. To the same field, Aratus, bard divine! DAPHNIS. "With apples Galatea pelts thy sheep, Inviting one, whose pulses never leap To love, whilst thou, cold Polypheme! dost pipe, Regardless of the sea-born beauty ripe. |